I know a lorry driver has appeared in
court charged in connection with the
deaths of 39 people found in a
refrigerated container at a port in
eastern England Morris Robinson who
appeared by video link has been charged
with 39 counts of manslaughter and
conspiracy to traffic people
he's been rounded in custody to appear
at the Central Criminal Court in four
weeks
meanwhile the families of those feared
dead have been holding vigils and
ceremonies back in Vietnam many are
thought to have come from the village of
Yin Tong from where Jonathan had reports
a community overwhelmed by shock and
despair they haven't heard from sons and
daughters who were on route to Britain
for days and they all fear the worst
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earlier this year Laban ha left Vietnam
to seek his fortune in Europe since he
left his wife has given birth to their
second child he was the great hope of
this family the news from Britain has
left them stunned his wife ha can't eat
or speak his father laymen Kwon is
inconsolable constantly hugging his
eldest grandchild
he believes he's lost not just his son
but his livelihood as well he mortgaged
all his land to borrow the money he paid
for levan hard journey the debt he left
us is huge he said we don't know when we
can pay it back I'm too old now and my
health is poor
it's been a day of prayer here and of
neighbors doing what they can to offer
comfort they used in this part of
Vietnam to saying goodbye to their young
men and women money sent back from
abroad is important to the local economy
and here Britain is their preferred
destination windin Duong had already
been living abroad for two years before
deciding to take the last risky trip
across the channel his family believes
he too was inside the ill-fated
container well I know about England is
it's not far from France said his father
and I heard it was safe going to England
that nothing would happen saving and
borrowing to send their young folk
overseas has become a routine practice
in these villages it's also become a
richly profitable business for the
trafficker 'he's a pitiless and a
dangerous one few people here realized
as they surely do now just how dangerous
it could be Jonathan had BBC News yen
tan Vietnam